The Dawn of Mankind Our journey begins in the depths of time, where our earliest ancestors roamed the earth. These ...

Many people hold the view that evolution in modern humans has come to a halt. But while modern medicine and technologies have changed the environment in which evolution operates, many scientists ...

In the modern context the flip side of his hypothesis is that we may be victims of our own success. We have gotten so good at processing foods that for the first time in human evolution ...

Long before the bones found there acquired value to modern researchers ... make another discovery that would change the map of human evolution. A version of this story appears in the February ...

Innovation in Stone Tool Technology Involved Multiple Stages at the Time of Modern Human Dispersals Feb. 7, 2024 — A new study illuminates the cultural evolution that took place approximately ...

New study demonstrates that certain incised stone artefacts from the Levantine Middle Palaeolithic, specifically from Manot, ...

Dr. Baumann and his colleagues hypothesize that ancient humans may have hunted and killed more animals than they could ...

Standing proud in the Museum's Human Evolution gallery are two of the most scientifically accurate reconstructions that exist of a Neanderthal and early modern human. Find out how these lifelike ...

Some time prior to this last common ancestor's existence, the changes occurred in our PAR2 region that helped define a major milestone in modern human evolution. The question is, did it happen before ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

trace the origins and evolution of our species, and explore what makes us human. Embark on a seven-million-year journey, from the first hominins to the last surviving human species: us. Investigate ...

Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our vocalizations follow the same principle outlined in Zipf's law Margherita Bassi A paleontologist journeys through ...